Ironing-board.



A. L. PAYNE.

IRONING BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11, 1911 1, 1 33 ,661 Patented Mar. 30, 1915.

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ANDREW' L. PAYNE, O33 MARION, (31-110.

IRONING-IBOARD.

Application filed April 11, 1911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, ANDREW L. PAYNE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marion, in the county of Marion and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and use ful Improvements in Ironing-Boards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in ironing boards, and more particularly to that class most generally known as folding or collapsible ironing boards.

The object of this invention is the provision of an ironing board of such construction that it can be folded against the wall, for the purpose of occupying but very little space in the room. 0

Another object of this invention is to 1mprove and simplify devices of this character, rendering them comparatively slmple and inexpensive to manufacture, reliable and efficient in use, and readily operated.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention resides in the nov 1 features of construction, formations, combinations and arrangements of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which-- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved ironing board; Fig. 2 1s a side elevation thereof; Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the inner end of the ironing board and the beveled lower end of the cross-bar; Fig. 4 is a detail view of the slotted end of upright 5. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the locking bar.

Referring to the drawing by characters of reference, the numeral 1 designates generally a portion of a room, while the numerals 2 and 3 designate the wall and floor of the room respectively.

A cross bar 4 is secured to the wall 2 adjacent the floor 3 and in parallel relation thereto, and supports upon its opposite ends uprights 5. The upper ends of these up rights 5 are enlarged, as at 6, and are provided with transversely extending slots 7, offset at their upper ends in the direction of the wall 2, as at 8, for a purpose to be later described.

A support 9 is hinged to the intermediate Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar, 30 1515. Serial No. 620,288.

portion of the bar f-l, as at 10, and is hingedly secured at its upper terminal, to a block 11 secured in, any desired manner, to the central portion of an ironing board 12. The inner end of t 1e ironing board 12 is provided with an upwardly extending tapered rib 13, adapted to engage the correspondingly beveled lower end of a cross bar 12 secured to the wall in parallel relation to the cross bar 4, for the purpose of preventing the upward movement of the ribbed end of the said ironing board.

A locking bar 14 may be inserted through the slots 7 and be raised into engagement with the shoulders 15 formed at the juncture of the slots 7 and its offsets 8, for the purpose of contacting with the lower face of the ribbed end of the ironing board for the purpose of securing the same in perpendicular relation to the uprights 5. The locking bar 1 1- is transversely notched, as at 16, for engagement with the lower ends of the slots 7, which obviously prevents he displacement of the same from the supports.

The ironing board is folded as follows: The locking bar 14 is next moved from the offset portion 8 downwardly into the lower end of the slot 7, which permits the ribbed end 13 to be moved downwardly out of engagement with the beveled edge of the cross bar 12, after which the said ironing board 12 may be folded inwardly against the wall 2, with the support 9 interposed therebetween when the ironing board is in folded position, the member 9 will lie flat against the wall while the ironing board 12 will be spaced from the member 9 by the block 11. It will therefore be apparent that the insertion of the locking bar 14 through the lower terminal of the slot 7 will dispose the bar between the member 9, and the ironing board 12, thus holding the members 12 and 9 in folded position against the wall.

From the foregoing disclosure it will be manifest that a folding ironingboard is provided which will fulfill all of the necessary requirements of such a device.

Having thus fully described this invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

A collapsible ironing board including a pair of vertically disposed supporting members adapted to be fixed to a wall in fixed spaced relation to each other, an enlarged head formed integrally with each of said supporting members and provided with an inverted L-shaped slot, a pair of cross bars adapted to be secured to the wall and arranged horizontally and in parallel relation to each other adjacent the ends of the said vertical supporting members, a supporting leg hingedly secured to the lower of said cross bars, an ironing board hinged to the free end of said supporting leg, a transversely disposed upwardly projecting looking rib carried at the inner end of said ironing board and adapted to engage in the assembled position of the ironing board with the adjacent beveled edge of the said upper cross bar, and a locking bar having a pair of spaced longitudinally extending notches formed in one side, said locking bar being adapted for disposition in'the lateral legs ofthe said L-shaped slots of the vertical supporting members when the ironing board is in assembled position, said locking bar being further adapted for disposition in the vertical legs of said L-shaped slots when the ironing board is in folded position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ANDRElV L. PAYNE.

Witnesses:

FRENCH CROW, GRACE E. DIEHL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, .D. 0. 

